DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0202Z SEPTEMBER 16, 2008
Western US (Washington, Oregon, California): Smoke from wildfires burning from central to northern California and into southwest Oregon are producing a large area of moderate to extremely dense smoke through most of central and northern California and into the Pacific Ocean and north into parts of Oregon and continuing north into Washington and southern British Columbia. The wildfires burning in southeast Fresno and north central Tulare counties (Sequoia National Forest) are producing a line of moderate to extremely dense smoke stretching from the southern sections and moving into the central sections of the San Joaquin Valley and then moving northwest towards the Sacramento Valley. Over northwest California, wildfires in the Siskiyou Mountains over eastern Del Norte county and western Siskiyou county were producing a moderately dense to very dense smoke plume that extended northwest towards the coastline of Curry county in southwest Oregon. In Oregon the wildfire burning on the Jackson/Klamath county line and over northeast Douglas county are combining to produce a very dense smoke plume that was moving north into southwest Washington and appeared to be one of the main contributors to the large overall smoke plume covering the northwest United States. Hanna